The Pacific women’s basketball team continues it postseason run in about 10 minutes as Utah visits Spanos Center in the third round of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament. The Tigers (27-7) will host Saint Mary’s in a quarterfinal matchup on Saturday with a victory, but it won’t come easy against the Utes (20-13) of the [...]
We are just a few minutes from tipoff here at Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas as the 15th-seeded Tigers try to pull the upset over the heavily favored No. 2 Hurricanes. If coach Bob Thomason wants to play the “No Respect” card, he wouldn’t have to look further then the pregame starting lineup sheet [...]
Pacific senior guard Lorenzo McCloud said he received a call of congratulations last Saturday from his good friend, Houston Rockets all-star guard James Harden, following the Tigers’ win over UC Irvine in the Big West Conference Tournament championship game. Harden shared his wisdom with McCloud, who might keep his words in mind when Pacific plays Miami on Friday in [...]
Bob Thomason will coach in his fifth NCAA Tournament when No. 15 Pacific plays No. 2 Miami at 11:10 a.m. on Friday and associate coach Ron Verlin has been along for the rid for all of them. Verlin is now in his 19th season as Thomason’s top assistant and athletic director Ted Leland tabbed him [...]
Pacific athletic director Ted Leland traveled Wednesday to Austin, Texas, with the No. 15 Tigers’ men’s basketball team for Friday’s second-round, East Region matchup with No. 2 Miami. Leland said outside a victory over the Hurricanes, the benefit the Tigers will receive by making the tournament is exposure on national television. “It’s huge exposure in terms of [...]
Coach Bob Thomason’s final regular-season game at Pacific was part game, part reunion, as scores of his former classmates at Clayton Valley High in Concord, former teammates from his days at Pacific, and former players in his 25 years of coaching paid their respects at Spanos Center. All were in a gleeful mood following the [...]
The Tigers closed the first half on an 8-0 run to take a 31-22 lead into the locker room against Long Beach State. Junior center Tony Gill leads Pacific’s balanced effort with 9 points off the bench, while Colin Beatty and Khalil Kelley have five points apiece. The Tigers have held the 49ers to 9 [...]
Spanos Center is beginning to fill up for the 2012-13 regular season finale and more importantly the final home game of coach Bob Thomason’s 25-year career. The pregame hoopla for Thomason and the six seniors is slated to begin shortly and the game will have plenty of significance as the Tigers need a victory to [...]
The Pacific men’s basketball team finds itself in the thick of the Big West Conference race heading into the final regular season weekend of coach Bob Thomason’s career. The second place Tigers (17-12, 11-5 Big West Conference) are about to host third-place UC Irvine (17-13, 10-6) with a chance to set up a championship showdown [...]
The Tigers played their best half of basketball in weeks against the Titans and lead 42-23 at halftime. Pacific jumped out to a 15-0 lead and barely let up, making 19 of 35 shots, despite going 2 for 9 from beyond the arc. Junior center Shanice Butler has a team-high 11 points tonight in five [...]
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